Dr. Jason Providakes

Senior Vice President and General Manager
Center for Connected Government

Dr. Jason Providakes is senior vice president and general manager of the Center for Connected Government (CCG). He leads the delivery of MITRE expertise to civilian agencies through federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). The goal for CCG under his leadership is to provide enduring technical capabilities supporting the missions of civilian agencies accountable for meeting critical national challenges.

The current FFRDCs within CCG include:

• The Center for Enterprise Modernization, sponsored by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and co-sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA);
• Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HS SEDI™), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and
• Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center (JEMC), sponsored by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

In addition, CCG operates the Center for Transforming Health, a mission center addressing healthcare sector challenges facing a variety of agencies within the federal government.

From 2009 through 2011, Dr. Providakes served as the director of the HS SEDI concurrent with his role as the general manager of CCG. As director, he provided strategic direction and leadership for MITRE's homeland security portfolio.

Prior to leading CCG, Dr. Providakes was executive director for the Joint and Defense-Wide Systems Division of MITRE's Command and Control Center. He supported the Department of Defense's (DoD) CIO to ensure an enterprise engineering approach was applied across DoD programs involving strategic and theater systems. He has also served as chief engineer for MITRE's Washington Command, Control, and Communications Center and as executive director for MITRE's Army Systems & Technology Division, where he was central to the Army's "digitize the battlefield" transformation.

Dr. Providakes' career is rooted in scientific research in support of national security, and he has filled numerous leadership roles for a range of military service and civilian government agency customers. He is a member of the Army Science Board and has participated in several studies of the National Academy of Sciences.

As an Optical and Remote Sensing technical expert, he has taught, performed research, and published extensively on radar backscatter of the earth's ionosphere. He holds his doctorate from Cornell University along with master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic University.

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